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Mountain-Guide.ch - Climbing, hiking and skiing with Olivier Roduit, mountain guide based in Verbier. Presentation, activities and contact.
Cantons in Profile: Valais - Swiss Federal Statistical Office - key data.
Salgesch / Salquenen - Wine and tourism, history and gallery.
Valaisan Museum of Wine and Winegrowing - Located in two places, linked by the Vineyard Walk in the vineyards, the museum presents exhibitions about the wine and a collection of cepages. Special exhibitions for children. Sierre and Salgesh.
Valais Info - General presentation of the canton. Information about the tourism and the economy. Lists of the different socio-economic regions. Culture and events. Weather service and road status reports.
The tunnel of Great Saint-Bernard - Presentation of this important route through the Alps. Itineraries to reach it; prices of the tunnel. History of this area and presentation of the sights on both sides.
BVZ Zermatt-Bahn - Operator of the railway Brig-Visp-Zermatt, the Zermatt-Gornergrat route, as well as aerial cable ways in Zermatt. With current offers, information on special coaches, galleries, nostalic pictures.
Wallis - Switzerland - Photos of a holiday to the area by Sandra and Marko.
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Valais Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Valais "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman Valais blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov Valais "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Valais Man and wife make one fool. Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Valais My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Valais Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Valais Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Valais When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Valais Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Valais To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Valais Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban Valais Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers Valais It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Valais When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington Valais Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student Valais Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Valais The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Valais "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Valais Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Valais Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham Valais
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